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Stuff I've recently saved to Pinboard.
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The inside story of why the world’s best and richest football club lost the battle for talent
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Much as the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine became an unproven remedy for Covid deniers, ivermectin has emerged in recent weeks as a new false cure.
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A new study challenges assumptions about energy expenditure by people, including the idea that metabolism slows at middle age.
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The Sackler family is poised to evade litigation stemming from its role in the opioid crisis. Here's how it happened.
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tl;dr: The password generator included in Kaspersky Password Manager had several problems. The most critical one is that it used a PRNG not suited for cryptographic purposes. Its single source of entropy was the current time. All the passwords it created could be bruteforced in seconds. This article explains how to securely generate passwords, why Kaspersky Password Manager failed, and how to exploit this flaw. It also provides a proof of concept to test if your version is vulnerable.
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The ship that brought global trade to its knees is still stuck in the Suez Canal and now finds itself at the centre of an almighty international row
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America’s chief immunologist claps back.
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Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?
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View github release statistics
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The most unsettling weekend of my professional career was spent in a small hotel conference center in the company of people I had never met before and whom I have not seen since. It upended much of what I believed about myself and my profession and plucked me from a path I had traveled for 25 years, depositing me in an unfamiliar landscape that still feels, almost five years later, like a foreign land.
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America’s hot-take economy has created a kind of smart that is indistinguishable from stupid. These days we’re soaking in it.
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English speakers know that their language is odd. So do people saddled with learning it non-natively. The oddity that we all perceive most readily is its spelling, which is indeed a nightmare. In countries where English isn’t spoken, there is no such thing as a ‘spelling bee’ competition. For a normal language, spelling at least pretends a basic correspondence to the way people pronounce the words. But English is not normal.
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In 2011, Chinese spies stole the crown jewels of cybersecurity—stripping protections from firms and government agencies worldwide. Here’s how it happened.
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Some questions:
1. Why do you always have to accept websites’ terms? And why do you have no record of your own of what you accepted, or when‚ or anything?
2. Why do you have no way to proffer your own terms, to which websites can agree?
